Matadors Breaking the Bias

Women’s empowerment in STEM at MVHS This year’s international women’s day slogan Break the Bias celebrates women everywhere — breaking glass ceilings and finding ways to collectively empower themselves in institutions and systems of sexism.  STEM fields house many such ceilings; women hold only 26% of tech sector jobs. In software-related careers, women systemically make …

Wordle-ly Wise

Five Letters, Six Guesses, Infinite Strategies Tears. Crate. Adieu. Five letter words like these, seemingly unrelated, have taken the world by storm in the new New York Times trending word game — Wordle. Wordle was created by Josh Wardle, a software engineer from Brooklyn, NY, as a romantic gift for his partner. Wardle’s game has …

The Omicron Onslaught

3 students detail their experience with COVID-19 According to the Guardian, the omicron variant is the most transmissible of COVID-19 variants—and its impact is evident within the MVHS community. Just last week, the 83rd COVID-19 case on campus was identified after a semester with only six COVID-19 cases—totaling to 77 cases in the last two …

As The Pressure Builds, The Cycle Continues

How the cycles of life continue past human life. The Earth had become green and yellow, the sulfur blanketing the planet as a thick and gaseous force of nature. It would once become blue and green again, after millions of years, and the bacteria would return. But for now, it was green and yellow.  Of …

From Conventional to Cool

The psychology and economics behind trend setting Hydroflasks, scrunchies and sksksksksk have seemed to take over not only the MVHS campus but the environment surrounding teens on social media platforms. Viral crazes like the “VSCO girl,” Billie Eilish and more have managed to infiltrate the screens of TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram user in the past …